Plexippus (spider) explained

Plexippus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.^[1] It is considered a senior synonym of Hissarinus^[2] and Apamamia.^[3]

Taxonomy

In Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae, Plexippus is placed in the tribe Plexippini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.

Species

it contains forty-two species and one subspecies, found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands:^[4]

• Plexippus aper Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
• Plexippus auberti Lessert, 1925 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Plexippus baro Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
• Plexippus bhutani Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan, China
• Plexippus brachypus Thorell, 1881 – Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.)
• Plexippus clemens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India, Iran?
• Plexippus coccinatus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902 – Turkey ('Turcomania')
• Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
• Plexippus dushanbinus Andreeva, 1969 – Tajikistan
• Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 – Kenya
• Plexippus frendens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
• Plexippus fuscus Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 – Guinea
• Plexippus gershomi Prószyński, 2017 – Israel
• Plexippus ignatius Caleb, 2022 – India
• Plexippus incognitus Dönitz & Strand, 1906 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Plexippus insulanus Thorell, 1881 – Indonesia (Moluccas)
• Plexippus iranus Logunov, 2009 – Iran
• Plexippus kondarensis (Charitonov, 1951) – Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
• Plexippus lutescens Wesolowska, 2011 – Namibia, Zimbabwe
• Plexippus minor Wesolowska & van Harten, 2010 – United Arab Emirates
• Plexippus niccensis Strand, 1906 – Japan
• Plexippus ochropsis Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
• Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826) (type) – Africa. Introduced to both Americas, Europe, Middle East, India, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Pacific Is.
  • Plexippus p. nigrescens (Berland, 1933) – French Polynesia (Marquesas Is.)
• Plexippus perfidus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878) – Asia. Introduced to Africa and Pacific islands
• Plexippus phyllus Karsch, 1878 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Plexippus pokharae Zabka, 1990 – Nepal
• Plexippus redimitus Simon, 1902 – India, Sri Lanka
• Plexippus robustus (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania
• Plexippus rubroclypeatus (Lessert, 1927) – Congo
• Plexippus rubrogularis Simon, 1902 – South Africa
• Plexippus scleroepigynalis Logunov, 2023 – Iran
• Plexippus seladonicus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
• Plexippus setipes Karsch, 1879 – Turkmenistan, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan
• Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939 – Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan?, Greece?
• Plexippus stridulator Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Plexippus taeniatus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
• Plexippus tortilis Simon, 1902 – West Africa
• Plexippus tsholotsho Wesolowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Plexippus wesolowskae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1998 – Bangladesh
• Plexippus zabkai Biswas, 1999 – Bangladesh

External links

• Photograph of P. paykulli
• Photographs of Plexippus species
• Photograph of P. cf. paykulli
• Photograph of P. petersi

Notes and References

1. Book: Koch, C. L.. 1846. Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band. 1–234. Carl Ludwig Koch.
2. Andreeva. E. M.. 1975. Distribution and ecology of spiders (Aranei) in Tadjikistan. Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw. 20. 339.
3. Ledoux. J.-C.. Hallé. N.. 1995. Araignées de l'île Rapa (îles Australes, Polynésie). Revue Arachnologique. 11. 12.
4. Gen. Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846. World Spider Catalog Version 24. 2023-06-12. 2023. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.